Anyone can become angry – that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not easy.
— Aristotle, 350BC
(That is Zen...)
Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth.
— Mayer & Salovey
(This is a good thing. Calm yourself and get this way.)
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
~~ Claude Bernard
(One should never be afraid to check out the beliefs they hold dear. It they are true, the beliefs will hold up to all scrutiny. And besides, who are you that you think you know everything, anyway?)
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. ~~ Susan Jeffers
(Develop positive thinking. Work on it, want it, go after it. Beat negative thinking down with an ugly stick. You don't have time for that stuff.)
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